Temple trip to Switzerland

The Napoli District, which our branch is a part of, rented two busses and we had about 100 Italian Saints and 2 Senior couples go to the temple in Swizerland for a whole week!  We left 

Battipaglia on Sunday afternoon.  We pushed our way onto a very very crowded train that had every door jammed with hundreds of people standing.  We had four of us with our suitcases and coolers and food for a week, all trying to get on the train.  It was very very hot and we didn't think we could push hard enough to get on.  It was a miracle that we got on.  I was ready to pass out any moment because of the heat and the smells and the crowd....but I didn't.  After an hour and a half, we made it to Naples, where we were meeting the saints there and we waited about an hour for the buses which were to take us to Switzerland.  Families with all the teenagers rode on one bus, and the rest of us rode on the 2nd bus.  We left Naples about 7 pm.  We arrived at the temple about noon the next day.  It was a very uncomfortable ride with no leg room and no sleep all night.  The temple was closed on Monday, so we used the day to get settled, walk to the grocery store, and cook and rest.  We had four young adults from our branch go.  One is a returned missionary and the others are new or recently reactivated girls.  They did baptisms every morning.  There were firesides, devotionals, and testimony meetings everyday.  Paul and Ivan helped with the baptisms each morning.  Many family names were done.  Our branch is very active with genealogy and indexing.  Several hundred names were done in baptisms.